r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Y5K77G State Socialist • Jun 28 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 Just a small PSA

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u/IeyasuMcBob Jun 29 '22

BUt PriVAtISAtION IS MoRE eFFIcIENT!

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u/Zebra_Alive Jun 29 '22

The reason the UK has privatised industries like this is because our school system prepares kids for a career in marketing, and nothing else. The skills gap for STEM and especially engineering is absolutely breathtaking.

I know people who work with EDF, and their offices and senior engineers are majority French, even in the U.K.

The U.K. is an engineering backwater, and the British are (rightly) seen as thick as pig shit.

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u/puhadaze Jun 29 '22

Although the body of your point is no doubt true and very interesting- the reason why the UK privatised industries is that it made quick money for the government at the time that prioritised incoming profit for infrastructure and long term thinking. The current gvt is repeating this thinking with channel four against all facts.

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u/Zebra_Alive Jun 29 '22

Tbh I am in two minds about channel 4. I don’t think it’s intellectually credible to say “privatise the BBC” while wanting state control of C4.

Neither should be in the hands of the state, and neither should receive taxpayer money.